Example sentences of "fill [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unsatisfied with this development , Edward even began to claim his sede vacante rights retrospectively : thus a benefice which was empty when a new bishop was appointed and was subsequently filled in the normal way by him , was sometimes claimed by Edward to be unlawfully filled , the patronage belonging by regalian right to the crown , even though the king had not exercised this during the vacancy of the see . |
| 2 | The look in her eyes filled in the unspoken words in her sentence . |
| 3 | The pipe is filled in the usual way . |
| 4 | He and the motor trader filled in the usual forms . |
| 5 | Following the retirement of Frank Whitehead ( 1982 ) and the early retirement of Alan England ( 1984 ) neither of the posts left vacant has still been filled ; they are unlikely to be filled in the foreseeable future . |
| 6 | The scheme is not out of the woods yet ; and rather than break the law Maxen last week filled in the local VATman 's registration form . |
| 7 | Ask pertinent questions or make statements in which the learner fills in the missing words , so that the student 's understanding can be tested . |
| 8 | Just because yours is n't as good , her mind fills in the blank space . |
| 9 | As a last resort MOD might tell us if we filled in the right forms . |
| 10 | For my second slide I chose a bullet chart and filled in the appropriate data form . |
| 11 | He also filled in the usual trader 's form offering to sell the car to the finance company and sent both forms off to the finance company . |
| 12 | Jill left for her coffee break , and Juliet filled in the basic charts . |
| 13 | It was there that he filled in the winning coupon , using a lucky pixie : |
| 14 | Never begin filling in the real form until you have practised at least once on a photocopy . |
| 15 | Check spelling and grammar on the copy before filling in the real form . |
| 16 | 4.28 Incidents of violence in establishments must be recorded both within the establishment 's routine method of recording so that all staff can see what has taken place and also be filling in the necessary report forms . |
| 17 | The Feldwebel came back , and the man who had been filling in the new form turned round in his chair and looked at me . |
| 18 | The park , unlikely though it might seem , was not a job , not a political ideology , not a way of filling in the weary hours until she was old enough to retire , not even something to spite her mother with once and for all while she accepted everything else from her . |
| 19 | Once you have decided on the questions you want to ask , you should draw up a chart like A on which you can record customer 's responses quickly , simply by ticking or filling in the appropriate column . |
| 20 | Mr Glavisky thinks people probably recalled German prisoners filling in the water-logged tank traps in Speke , which were a danger to children . |
| 21 | So under the surface of the thick glass lay a mass of long gold threads , filling in the whole cavity of the box with their turns and tumbles , so that at first the little tailor thought he had come upon a box full of spun gold , to make cloth of gold . |
| 22 | It also makes clear that sentences in the abstract do not in general express definite propositions at all ; it is only utterances of them in specific contexts that express specific states of affairs , where the contexts achieve this by filling in the pragmatic parameters that indexicals are variables for . |
| 23 | I did as he told me , eidetically filling in the missing mass of water . |
| 24 | It 's simple to do this now by filling in the direct debit and covenant on the back of the donation form . |
| 25 | It would mean so much to us if you would give a regular amount under Covenant , by filling in the Direct Debit form and Deed of Covenant above . |
| 26 | It was like filling in the blank spaces on a form and equally unprofitable . |
| 27 | Now one of the problems is that doctors are rather reluctant to do that because it 's very difficult for them to be sure that a particular headache or a particular skin rash has been caused by one of the medicines which the patient was taking , so the doctors are not very good at filling in the yellow cards and these are not a very good way of reporting adverse reactions , and to get over that we are starting now to use computers . |
| 28 | When filling in the income-tax return , building society interest must be included by entering the amount actually paid or credited . |
| 29 | She withdrew fifty millilitres of completely unnecessary blood from the patient 's arm , filled up the appropriate bottles and then put a blob on the treated strip and glanced at her watch . |
| 30 | These ‘ gorses ’ filled up the odd corners of parishes , and may be quickly spotted on the Ordnance map . |